Spoof news: "Who will rid me of this turbulent priest?" Puppet Monarch sobs "Who will rid me of this turbulent priest?" Puppet Monarch sobs Wednesday, 13 February 2008 "Usual arrangement, George. Fifty grand and the 'Bish croaks it, right?" Buckingham Palace - (Ecclesiastical Mess): The Archbishop of Canterbury's days may be numbered following the royal upset that his recent televised refusal to convert to Christianity has caused the Puppet Monarch. "It's either him or me!" Old Fatty Mountbatten raged today after hearing the news that Dr Rowan Williams won't back down about quaint personal views regarding lapidations, lashings and other exotic forms of tending to heathen flocks. The schizm between the head of the C of E church and its official cheerleader has sparked worries that the octogenarian crowned head could be heading for a coronary unless Williams is summarily thrown in the Tower, waterboarded into recanting and publicly hung out to dry in Trafalgar Square. British hystery has seen it all before of course.

A previous Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas A Becket, had a similar spat with his lord and master King Henry II. The full-time score from that relegation-fears match ended with a resounding one nil victory to the monarch after the recalcitrant archbish got his commeuppance with a multiple stabbing in the back. Some token public repentance by King Henry - including a Sharia-style public scourging - eventually atoned for the dastardly deed. "This time it could be the other way round, of course," a Lambeth Palace source said today. "If there's ever any news of a sudden and totally unexpected dropping dead in the Puppet Monarch department, you'll know just who to blame," the source added enigmatically. Make queen mudder's day - give this story five thumbs-up (there's no need to register, the thumbs are just down there!) 'WILL NO ONE RID ME OF THIS TURBULENT PRIEST?' by Donal Kennedy - Jude Collins By Jude Collins on January 28, 2016 0 Subject: “WILL NO ONE RID ME OF THIS TURBULENT PRIEST” The words are attributed to King Henry II of England.

Probably wrongly, for he generally spoke French and English was the language of the lower orders. (In those days in Ireland, Irish was spoken by the nobility, and both that language and Latin were written by the priests.) Anyhow those were other days in another country when the King’s word was law. Some of the King’s cronies jumped on their horses and galloped to Canterbury and murdered the Archbishop who had incurred his wrath. Those were days of BIG BOYS’ RULES. And the King had incurred the wrath of a still BIGGER BOY – OLD REDSOCKS HIMSELF -THE BISHOP OF ROME. The Bishop of Rome put England under an Interdict, a virtual Excommunication of the whole population, and King Henry ll for his penance, was publicly flogged by monks. And to think of all the sins I was absolved of for three Our Fathers and three Hail Marys!

Of course the English monarch’s powers have been trimmed by Parliament, and it is inconceivable that the gracious Queen would have goons at her disposal to publicly “wack” an Archbishop, like a scene from “Goodfellas.” The direction of such goons has long since passed to Parliament, where a hint from a minister might motivate a posse of goons to waste a solicitor or two. I’m reminded of all this by the British government’s determination to shield servicemen who have severely and terminally abused prisoners. Shielding those servicemen from investigation and prosecution and appropriate consequences. The British government has categorised lawyers who uphold the law as “ambulance chasing” shysters. Those lawyers expect no favours from the government’s agents. One lawyer, who served as a legal officer with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the British Army in IRAQ, attempted to see that international law and Queen’s Regulations were upheld. On leaving the Army he was ordained a priest of the Church of England. He has continued his campaign to see that the truth about the abuses are investigated, the truth revealed. His name is Lieutenant Colonel the Reverend Nicholas Mercer.

He was interviewed on television recently and politely but firmly wiped the floor with Tory MP Tom Tugendhat who was peddling the Government’s contemptible line. A gallant officer and Christian gentleman, the Reverend Nicholas Mercer. May God preserve him! Will No One Rid Me of This Turbulent Priest? | Times & Seasons Will No One Rid Me of This Turbulent Priest? • 37 Comments “Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?” According to popular tradition, this is the line that King Henry II blurted out after repeated disagreements with Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury. (There are several variations, such as “who will rid me of this meddlesome priest?”) Four of Henry’s knights interpreted this as a royal command and set off for Canterbury, where they slew Becket while he prayed at the altar. How should we understand the knights’ actions? Should we view them as following orders, or as acting on their own initiative? There are multiple possible interpretations. For instance, if we take an approach that “whether by mine own voice or by the voice of my servants, it is the same,” we might attribute the knights’ actions to Henry, whose actions set the events in motion.

And who are we to question an official press release? == EDIT: A few folks have asked for clarification. So, let’s clarify what I’m saying, and not saying, in this post. First, as hopefully an obvious point, I don’t think that church leaders are murderers. I’m making a historical comparison to elements of the history of Henry, but that doesn’t include the entire history. We can (and regularly do) compare people with historical figures without including all aspects of the figure in question. I can say someone is like Ammon without implying that they chop people’s arms off. And I think we can bring up the Becket case without suggesting that church leaders are murderers. I hope this is clear from the outset, but I’m happy to explicitly state it as well. Second, the timing of the joint excommunication letters is highly suspicious, to say the least. John Dehlin has been doing his thing for ten years. Kate Kelly has been going for over a year. For the hammer to drop RightNow on both of them, independently, seems vanishingly improbable.

However, the official Newsroom statement is that “Decisions are made by local leaders and not directed or coordinated by Church headquarters.” I don’t think I’m the only one who finds that stretches credulity. Does this mean that there was some conspiracy at the church office building, dead drops at midnight, messages transmitted in code? Actually, I’m saying the _opposite_ in this post. I don’t see any reason to think this was a cabal of masked conspirators. I do think it’s quite possible that someone’s off-the-record comments were interpreted as an order. That would explain the timing. And hey, isn’t that kind of like Becket? (Or for that matter, like claims regarding recent IRS investigations — that President Obama made statements about conservative groups, and then IRS officials decided to aggressively investigate those groups.) Finally, some folks have suggested in conversations that the Newsroom statement is technically accurate, as a precisely worded non-denial. For instance, it doesn’t say that actions weren’t initiated centrally, just that they weren’t “directed or coordinated” centrally. That may indeed be the case. I don’t know.

But if we’re really dealing in carefully worded not-quite-denials that barely skirt the border between “it depends on what the meaning of is is” and outright lies, then isn’t that really part of the problem? “Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?” - May 20, 2013 - St. Augustine “Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?” - May 20, 2013 We certainly have a remarkable President, a man who refuses to make decisions but must have his way! For those of you who blanch at an argument with an excluded middle, this may be an affront. How can a person have his own way if he doesn’t establish what his own way is? I think the most likely answer that overcomes the excluded middle is that there are ways to transmit a desire that is a consummate decision without either the words or the written proof of a decision. Leaders of all sort, from corporate to king, have long been able to convey their desires without the inconvenience and, perhaps, embarrassment of spelling it out.

After King Henry II showed his disdain for the Church by elevating his friend and drinking-and-whoring buddy Thomas Becket to the chair of Archbishop of Canterbury, Becket had the temerity to evolve into taking his religious calling seriously. Henry said (out loud to himself) in the hearing of his henchmen, “Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?” The henchmen then stormed Canterbury Cathedral, where Becket was praying, and murdered him at the altar. Corruption is not typically taught the way algebra is, with graphs and blackboards and textbooks. It is hinted at, sometimes with nothing more than a raised eyebrow, and those who refuse to understand soon find themselves on the streets, looking for work. It has been this way from time immemorial, and will be this way until the world ends, whether with a bang or a whimper. Men dissemble this way to cover their tracks and give them outlets for any result. Only God is wholly to the point. I am writing this on Pentecost day, a time that not only was the birth of the Church, not only the coming of the Holy Spirit, but also the turnaround of the story of the Tower of Babel.

Instead of words bringing confusion and chaos among brothers, they redefined brothers as those who understand beyond words. Words without the knowledge of the meaning are empty signs, lost on any audience. It is like expecting spell-check to make you into an editor. But having knowledge of meaning is itself insufficient if the person has bad faith. In the end, it is truth alone that is the hallmark of communication. There will always be sycophants, hangers-on, henchmen, toadies, and flatterers, ready and willing to rid the king of a turbulent priest. The greatness of our humanity is that there are also turbulent priests, often willing to be martyrs for us. My wife, Laila, and I went on our longest vacation in America in decades in early May, visiting the incredible canyon area of Utah and upper Arizona. I will return to write about that trip next week. Will no one rid me of this turbulent group? | RedState Will no one rid me of this turbulent group? Will no one rid me of this turbulent group?

Posted at 4:30 am on May 15, 2013 by Erick Erickson Share on Facebook Share on Twitter In June of 1170, the Archbishop of York and the Bishops of London and Salisbury crowned Henry II of England. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Beckett, should have had the privilege, but he and King Henry had been warring over the powers of clergy in England. Beckett proceeded to excommunicate the bishops and other opponents of the Catholic Church in England. According to tradition, Henry II, away in Normandy, upon hearing the news asked, “Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?” According to some, including Edward Grim who wrote during the time of Henry II, what Henry actually said was, “What miserable drones and traitors have I nourished and brought up in my household, who let their lord be treated with such shameful contempt by a low-born cleric?” But the former is what has taken hold in common history. Regardless of which of the two statements Henry II made, neither of them asked anyone to go kill the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Nonetheless, on December 29, 1170, four knights confronted Thomas Beckett inside Canterbury Cathedral as Beckett headed to vespers. They cut off the top of his head and began stabbing him, leaving him to die, and smearing Beckett’s brain matter on the floor of Canterbury Cathedral. Four years later, Henry II performed public penance in front of Becket’s tomb. None of Becket’s assassins were ever punished by the king. Like Henry II, Barack Obama never specifically asked that tea party groups and conservative be targeted. But by both his language and the “always campaigning” attitude of his White House, he certainly sent clear signals to Democrats with the power and ability to fight conservatives to engage as they could. Given his rhetoric against his political opponents, it is no wonder sympathetic Democrats in the Internal Revenue Service harassed and stymied conservative groups and, though little mentioned, pro-Israel Jewish groups and evangelical groups. Trending During Campaign 2008, Barack Obama famously told Democrats to take guns to knife fights .

He told a crowd of supporters to “ argue with neighbors; get in their face .” By the way, watch the full clip to hear Barack Obama say he will lower taxes and support the second amendment. In 2009, the White House created an email address [email protected] and encouraged people to report their neighbors who might disagree with Obamacare. The DNC admitted the White House was engaged in collecting information on people. During August recesses in 2009, the Obama Adminstration told Democrats in Congress to “punch back twice as hard” at Republicans. In 2011, the Obama White House set up a ridiculous website called Attack Watch to document and expose those hostile to them. As I wrote in 2009, the Obama team brought back the politics of personal destruction . I noted then a Politico story that reported The vast new left-wing conspiracy sets its tone every morning at 8:45 a.m., when officials from more than 20 labor, environmental and other Democratic-leaning groups dial into a private conference call hosted by two left-leaning Washington organizations. In 2012, the White House directly coordinated with outside groups to influence the Supreme Court’s Obamacare decision.

About the time these meetings with “dozens of leaders of nonprofit organizations” were happening in the White House, tea party groups were suddenly getting inquiries from the IRS, bogging them down and distracting them from the fight at hand. President Obama did not have to tell the IRS specifically to harass conservative, evangelical, and Jewish groups who might oppose him. His rhetoric on the campaign trail and in the permanent campaign of the White House operations made clear what he wanted. IRS agents not only harassed conservative groups, evangelical groups, and Jewish groups, but also leaked their confidential tax information to left-leaning groups. The National Organization for Marriage and other groups had their donor lists leaked subjecting those donors to harassment. A Romney donor was harassed by the IRS . More than one person has emailed me to say that after they reported themselves to [email protected] they were audited by the IRS — in one case audited several times about just one tax year. Obama went on the campaign trail in 2010 and told supporters to “punish our enemies.” The IRS did just that. The need for specificity or explicitness was unnecessary, just like in 1170.

BBC Bitesize - KS3 History - Thomas Becket and Henry II - Revision 3 The Middle Ages (12th to 15th century) Thomas Becket and Henry II The death of Thomas Becket is a well known event because of its unforeseen results. Henry II’s rage undid his plans to assert his power resulting in his shame and his victim’s ascent into sainthood. Revise Thomas Becket, Archibishop of Canterbury A 17th-century depiction of Thomas Becket as a martyr and saint Becket refused to sign the Constitutions of Clarendon – he said that it would mean that clerics were punished twice for the same crime. At a Great Council held at Northampton in 1164, Becket was found guilty of treason . Becket fled to France. In 1170, the Pope threatened to excommunicate Henry, so Henry let Becket return to England. Becket had won. Then Becket excommunicated three bishops who supported Henry. In rage, Henry is said to have shouted: Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest? .

Four knights heard this and, in a misplaced effort to please Henry, rode to Canterbury, and murdered Becket at the altar of the Cathedral on 29 December 1170. You need to have JavaScript enabled to view this video clip. Henry II, Thomas Becket and the church courts < Archbishop of Canterbury The most important bishop in England. Archdeacon A senior clergyman ranked just below a bishop. canonise To treat as a sacred person. Chancellor Chief secretary to the king. Chaucer Medieval writer, most famous for The Canterbury Tales. cleric A person who leads religious services. commoner A person who is not a member of the nobility. dictator A ruler with complete power. excommunicate Officially expel someone from the Church and stop them taking part in the services of the Church. hair shirt A shirt made from woven horse hair worn by someone doing penance for a wrongdoing. jury A group of people (usually 12 in number) who listen to the facts of a case in a court and give their verdict. martyr Someone who suffers death and persecution for their beliefs. monarch King or Queen. Norman A person from Normandy in northern France.

The Normans invaded and conquered England in the 11th century. penance Voluntary act of punishment to show regret for a wrongdoing. pilgrim A person who performs a journey which has religious or spiritual significance, know as a pilgrimage. Pope The Bishop of Rome and head of the Roman Catholic Church. Saxon People from north west Germany who migrated to Britain and settled in southern England in the 5th and 6th centuries. shrine Tomb or monument to a saint or other holy person. treason The crime of betraying one's country, sovereign or government. tyrant A cruel and oppressive ruler. Whig historian English historians of the 19th and early 20th century, who believed that England's history was a steady, inevitable and destined march from monarchy to democracy, and that this is what had made Britain ‘Great’. Constitutions of Clarendon: Who will rid me of this Turbulent Priest? Who will rid me of this Turbulent Priest?

"Who will rid me of this Turbulent Priest?" Supposedly the famous words uttered by king Henry II, which led to four knights travelling to England to confront Becket, but subsequently murdering him in Canterbury cathedral, This is also recorded as "Who will rid me of this meddlesome priest?" and also in English thus "Who will rid me of this troublesome priest?" "Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?" "Will no one revenge me of the injuries I have sustained from one turbulent priest?" "A curse," said he, "a curse light upon all the false varlets that I have maintained, who have left me so long exposed to this insolence from a priest, and have not attempted to relieve me of him!" And in French <<N'y aurait-il donc personne pour me débarrasser de ce clerc outrecuidant ?>> All of these seem to be embellishments of descriptions of the event, deriving from 18th and 19th century English historiography and historical literature. No chronicler contemporary with those times was present when king Henry was said to have uttered these words.

Edward Grim, hagiographer, records the same event in his Life of Saint Thomas in Latin thus "Inertes ac miseros homines enutrivi et erexi in regno meo, qui nec fidem ferunt domino suo, quem a plebeo quodam clerico tam probose patiuntur illudi." Saint Thomas (à Becket) (1845). Opera . Parker. pp. 68–. Turbulent Priest - TV Tropes Turbulent Priest You need to login to do this. Get Known if you don't have an account Share An Evil Empire , Repressive Dictator , Government Conspiracy or even a Corrupt Corporate Executive has sinister plans. Where will the hero find an ally? In The Church . A Turbulent Priest is a member of the clergy who will resist the plans of somebody with power. Usually their fight is with a secular authority who threatens the Church or general morality, but struggles against other clergy attempting to subvert what the Church stands for is just as viable a cause. This trope can be depicted in either a positive or a negative light.

If the Turbulent Priest is portrayed as in the right, his opponent is usually interested in money or power, and will quite gladly engage in animal cruelty and other immoral behavior to get it (sometimes said opponent will also attack the church to try and remove any opposition). They could also just be someone who has money or power and thinks this gives them the right to kick anyone in their way , with this often being Truth in Television regarding such situations. If he's in the wrong, the Secular Authority is generally trying to improve society, and the Priest is afraid of change. The Trope Namer (see below) is actually quite neutral by most understandings. How the Turbulent Priest conducts himself depends on his rank and standing. If he is the equivalent of a Monk or Parish priest, he may offer sympathies to the hero. If the work is set in The Evil Empire or similar, expect him to be part of La Rï¿½sistance and usually given more freedom than the average citizen, because the Church retains some power and would not like to see its clergy picked on. If the Turbulent Priest is a bishop or other high-ranking member of the Church, expect him to publicly decry the plans, and encourage resistance.

If his beef is with one person, sometimes questioning whether his soul is as safe as he thinks is an effective deterrent. Both styles may overlap with a Badass Preacher or a Church Militant . Named for Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury , who spent most of his tenure arguing with King Henry II over his plans to exercise increased royal control over the Church in England, leading Henry II to utter the quote at the top of the page. There was no real right or wrong side from a modern perspective, as Henry saw clergy abuse the Ecclesiastical Legal system to escape secular punishment, and Becket saw the sovereignty of the Church as being threatened; in summary, both were convinced the other was going to make a power-grab then abuse that power. Interestingly, what Henry actually said about Becket is not exactly known , though several of his knights apparently took the quote as a royal execution order , and murdered the Archbishop at the altar of his own cathedral, getting their king in trouble with the Pope.

Examples: open/close all folders Anime and Manga In 20th Century Boys , two Badass Preachers aide Kanna and Kenji's friends in the fight against the Friend cult, both of which are reformed criminals: Father Nitani, a Japanese priest , and Father Luciano, an Italian cardinal. In Claymore , Claire and her team of rebel warriors have human allies in the holy city of Rabona , including some priests. Cross Marian of D.Gray-Man . There have been a few references for him being a priest. He's referred to as "Father" by Ba Ba. When Allen first meets him, he assumes he's a priest. The mangaka, Hoshino, has drawn him wearing priest robes ◊ in one of her character books. And Mother, an old friend of his, seems to live in a church. We hear from her in the Reverse novels that she watches over it when Cross is away. However, Cross has not been shown to have any respect for The Black Order. He's an Exorcist general of the organization, who has stated he hates going to HQ. And prior to the story had cut off communication with them for 4 years.

The Vatican of The Order has shown to have a good bit of corruption. The Exorcists are seen as warriors of God. But The Order is responsible for many experiments on people, trying to force synchronization of Innocence with some, which kills them.And there's no problem kidnapping people and forcing them to become Exorcists, such as young Lenalee, who was taken from her only family to work for The Order. Whenever she tried to escape, Director Lvellie would catch her and bring her back. It eventually led to her trying to commit suicide, at which she was captured and restrained to her bed. Along with the Second and Third Exorcist programs. Cross has actually been allied with a Noah for over 35 years and working with him. But despite hating the Order, and working with a Noah, he never became a Fallen One as Summan Dark did upon betraying Innocence and the Order to the Noah in attempt to save his own life. Films — Animated The Archdeacon of the Cathedral in Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame interferes with Judge Frollo's more morally questionable acts, such as drowning babies and violating the sanctuary law.

Amusingly, the original Frollo from the book was both a more moral person... and archdeacon of Notre Dame. It's like Disney split him in half and made him fight himself. Films — Live-Action Subverted in the movie Black Death . The young monk is the only man who recognizes that most witch-burnings are the result of hysterical superstition, and initially sides with the villagers against the knights. Then he finds out it's a Village With A Dark Secret ... The Tower Guardian Dumont in TRON is a Cool Old Guy who maintains the only free I/O Tower on the system, despite Master Control's persecution of User-Believers. He's on the verge of the Despair Event Horizon , but Tron and Yori convince him to help. After he's captured and facing certain de-rez for his actions, he is remarkably sarcastic and defiant, declaring that Master Control "started small, and will end small!" Subverted in the Movie Dracula Untold . The bearded monk is horrified when he finds out Dracula is a vampire, exposes this to his people and extols Dracula to cure himself or die.

Dracula himself is benevolent and using this power to save his people from the Ottoman Turkish Empire. However, the other vampires he creates are bloodthirsty and malicious as the monk feared, and the monk saves Dracula's son from them by repelling them with a crucifix , leading Dracula to realize how dangerous vampirism is . Literature Having at the core of its plot a schism between a Corrupt Path of Inspiration and the nation it tried ( and failed ) to destroy, there is a number of such characters in the Safehold series, such as Charis Archbishop Maikel Staynair and members of the reformist movement within the Church of God Awaiting known as the Circle. Friar Tuck in the Robin Hood legendarium. A Song of Ice and Fire features the "Sparrows", pious knights and peasants who become increasingly angered at the unmitigated atrocities (and general immorality and corruption) occurring across Westeros, eventually leading them to force the installation of one of their number as the new High Septon, who starts out as rather openly condemnatory of the leadership of the realm. Cersei Lannister attempts to placate them by authorizing the restoration of the Faith Militant .

King Baelor the Blessed from the backstory proves an interesting case. He was an utter pacifist who walked barefoot across the continent to make peace with his elder brother's enemies, and constantly gave away the kingdom's treasury to the poor, but it was only through the political savvy of his machiavellian uncle Viserys that the nobility were kept from rebelling. In The World of Ice & Fire , it is suggested Baelor might have been assassinated because he got in his head that all infidels must be converted, which would have led to a humongous civil war against the Northmen and Ironborn, who practice different faiths from the rest of Westeros. That said, even Baelor backed away from reviving the Faith Militant, so yes even the Befuddled One had more political sense than Cersei (though again that was due to his pacifism-he felt no weapons were needed, only prayer). The Red Priests of R'hllor are generally The Fundamentalist , advocating extreme solutions and combining faith with sex-positive attitudes and magic.

Tyrion sees a Red Priest rally a crowd of slaves in Volantis advocating for the end of slavery and heralding Daenerys as an abolitionist savior. Tyrion is scared of the religious frenzy this evokes in the crowd, leading him to remark: Tyrion: Give me priests who are fat and corrupt and cynical, the sort who like to sit on soft satin cushions, nibble sweetmeats, and diddle little boys. It's the ones who believe in gods who make the trouble. Several examples in Mercedes Lackey's Bardic Voices and Valdemar novels. Rosemary Sutcliff got a lot of mileage out of religious conflicts. Fanatical druids stir up anti-Roman revolts in The Eagle of the Ninth and Frontier Wolf ; monks bicker with King Arthur in Sword at Sunset ; Augustine of Canterbury rocks up to convert the dubious Anglo-Saxon kings in Dawn Wind ; zealous Puritans ally with Parliament against King Charles in The Rider of the White Horse and Simon; and Presbyterian Scottish Covenanter priests reject the rule of English kings in We Lived in Drumfyvie and Bonnie Dundee. Philip in The Pillars of the Earth is one.

One of his great life goals is to prove that faith and virtue is a more powerful force than violence and wickedness. In the end, he does. In the third Dune book, Children of Dune, a man known only as "The Preacher" pops up on Arrakis condemning the religion of Muad'Dib that the Fremen have set up. Notably, he isn't condemning Muad'Dib himself, but rather the overbearing, controlling religion that has come about since Muad'Dib's death, and many suspect that he's trying to return the Fremen to their previous way of life. The Preacher is Paul-Muad'Dib himself, returning in disguise after everyone believed him dead. He never liked the religion that sprung up around him when he took control of Arrakis, and after some reflection in the desert has committed himself to tearing it down. A villainous example in The Dinosaur Lords with father Tavaros, the Papal Legate (army chaplain) sent to look after spiritual health of Correction Army. In fact, he has a doctrinal feud with this army's commander, and constantly tries to undermine him.

He also encourages the more rebellious elements of the army to Rape, Pillage, and Burn , and propagates the "let the gods sort them out" mentality. Live Action TV Jake in All The Small Things introduces sweeping reforms in his church in order to make it relevant to the local community. Needless to say, the traditionalists in the choir and on the parish council aren't happy. One episode of Blackadder I has the title character, the younger son of the king, made Archbishop of Canterbury after his father had the previous one assassinated for being turbulent. Blackadder spends the whole episode trying not to be this trope, even trying to talk a dying nobleman out of leaving all his money to the church. The king celebrates the fact that, unlike Henry II, he will never have to ask "Who will rid me of this turbulent priest?" Unfortunately, a pair of drunken knights overhear part of the conversation and think it means they should go kill the new archbishop. The first and third High Septon as depicted in the TV adaptation of the A Song of Ice and Fire books, Game of Thrones . However, details were changed about the High Sparrow and his order from the book counterparts into a take that against religious fundamentalists.

Tabletop Games Necromunda has the Arch Zealot of the Redemption, a completely batshit insane Imperial priest who goes around with his band of fanatics setting fire to heretics. He's so extreme higher-ups in the Redemptionists have put a bounty on his head. The Warhammer 40K short story The Last Church, set before the Great Crusade, features Uriah, the priest who looks after the last church on Terra. He spends the story debating the need for religion with a mysterious stranger who turns out to be the God-Emperor of Mankind in disguise. Then he proceeds to call out the Emperor in front of a crowd of Thunder Warriors (prototype Space Marines ) and walks back into his burning church to die in the flames. During the Age of Apostasy, the corrupt head of the Ecclesiarchy (and Administratum , and Munitorum ) Goge Vandire ruled with an iron fist until he was opposed by a firebrand preacher known as Sebastian Thor. Thor whipped his followers into a frenzy and started a rebellion, which Vandire sent a fleet to crush.

The entire battlefleet was obliterated by a Warp storm that was taken to be a sign from the God-Emperor himself, and a full-blown civil war resulted. Implied to be the case with the pre-Fall Eldar, who tried to convince their kin to abandon their debauched ways. Unfortunately, the others disregarded them, resulting in the birth of Slaanesh , the loss of their homeworld and the death of about 90% of their race. Video Games Turbulent Priests tend to pop up a lot in Random Events in Paradox Interactive games, such as Crusader Kings and Europa Universalis . Revolts and / or stability drops tend to follow in their wake, leading to much frustrating head-clutching. In Crusader Kings II, Catholic bishops are Turbulent as long as they like the Pope more than their secular liege. This, by paying taxes to the Pope and withholding levies from their liege. If the respect of the Religion Faction in Tropico 4 drops too low, they'll begin preaching against El Presidente's rule, lowering the opinion of everyone who visits a church (i.e. everybody).

In general, priests are troublesome when they get unhappy, because it causes a lot of unrest to spill over if they're executed. In [PROTOTYPE 2] Father Guerra is a close ally of protagonist James Heller through the first part of the game. Mass Effect plays with this in the form of two minor NPC's, a Hanar evangelist and a Turian C-Sec officer. It's a netural situation of Grey and Grey Morality , as the evangelist is preaching in the Presidium, where all preaching is forbidden as a form of religious neutrality (those who wish to do so must obtain a permit and preach elsewhere), but the C-sec officer is trying to move him along out of bigotry against the Hanar and/or their religion (as he only refers to the evangelist using a racial slur and the religion's he's espousing as "nonsense"). Siding with either, depending on how it's done, can get either Paragon points, Renegade points, both or none. Western Animation One of the Fire Temple's Fire Sages in Avatar: The Last Airbender helps the Gaang gain access to the inner chamber in "The Summer Solstice".

The Order of the White Lotus is this, including members of the Fire Nation, Jeong Jeong and their leader Iroh. Real Life Thomas Becket, as described above. The potential, and actual involvement, of major religious organizations in political matters is one of the main reasons that many secular radical political movements make an effort to curb religious institutions, religious people and/or religion itself on taking power. During The French Revolution , the Catholic Church was the largest landowner in France and in order to reform the economy, the newly formed National Assembly voted to sell Church property (a move supported by soon-to-be-former Bishop Talleyrand) and most controversially promulgated a Civic Constitution of the Clergy that made the French Catholic Church subservient to the national government, and priests and bishops into government servants. This was seen by French Catholics as invasive and threatening to their religion, was denounced by the Pope and directly led to a Civil War in the Vendee. Ironically the same Catholics greatly resented some of the Constitutional Clergy who fell out of favor with the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte (who managed to win a Concordat with the Church to heal religious disputes).

From their perspectives, the likes of Abbe Gregoire, a civic clergyman, who advocated abolitionism, clampdown on antisemitism and also advocated for the preservation of Church monuments and relics during the Revolution, fell into disfavor. Gregoire, a devout Catholic and firm revolutionary, strongly opposed Napoleon's plan to roll-back the Church reform with the Concordat and to the end of his life, even during the Restoration, refused to abjure his oath to the discredited Civic Constitution. During Red October , the Russian Orthodox Church was widely despised for its support of the deeply unpopular Tsar, its nasty antisemitism and opposition of any reforms and revolutions. So naturally the Bolsheviks felt compelled to suppress the Orthodox Church by promoting state atheism, by supporting minority religions (such as Russian Muslims, Jews and Old Believers), and by actively executing clergymen and closing down churches. This policy ended when Stalin, a centrist who made an effort to restore some of the privileges of the battered Orthodox Church, albeit within limits. He especially tapped into this sentiment during World War II despite being an atheist on a personal level. He also reversed Lenin's policies towards religious minorities.

During the Cristero War , President Calles restricted religious freedom in Mexico so as to turn it into a Marxist state. Because 90% of the country's population was Catholic, this was an unpopular move to say the least. The Catholics revolted, and kept fighting until America negotiated a peace. President Calles immediately broke his end of the deal , but soon he was exiled and there was a Catholic president in Mexico again. Today, most of Calles' anti-clerical laws are unenforced. Cardinal Vicente Enrique y Tarancón was despised by the most immovilist elements of the Franco dictatorship to the point of being greeted with the cry ¡Tarancón al Paredón! ("Gun down Tarancón!") at Carrero Blanco 's funeral. It should be noted that after Vatican II the Franco dictatorship was a bigger Catholic hardliner than the Vatican itself. In medieval China, a wandering monk named Zhu Yuanzhang put an end to 100 years of Mongol rule in China by himself and seized the throne as the Hongwu Emperor, first of the Ming Dynasty.

Since he had been born in a dirt-poor farming family, his is also one of the most epic Rags to Royalty stories ever. Fr. Alexis Toth, a saint in the American Orthodox Church, to the American Catholic Church. Originally an Eastern Catholic priest ministering to Ukrainian immigrants in Minnesota, he was enraged by the way his flock was treated as second-class Catholics for following Greek rather than Roman rite. He not only quit Catholicism to join the Orthodox Church, he led many thousands of Eastern European immigrants to follow him as well. The TropeMakers were probably the Biblical prophets, who prophesied against the corruption of the people, the priests, and above all, the kings of Israel and Judah. For example, Moses' opposition of the Pharaoh in the Book of Exodus. Many leaders of the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S. starting in the 1950s were religious leaders, with the most famous examples being Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X. Many leaders in the continuing effort to correct racial injustices in American society today are also religious leaders. Priests following the Liberation Theology loudly protested against Central and South American dictators and some paid for this with their lives.

:: Indexes :: "Will No One Rid Me of This Turbulent Priest?" – The Moderate Voice Reprint That is the legendary translation of Henry II’s famous outburst of rage against the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Becket, which resulted in Becket’s murder: “What miserable drones and traitors have I nurtured and promoted in my household who let their lord be treated with such shameful contempt by a low-born cleric!” were the words which sparked the darkest event in Henry’s religious wranglings. This speech has translated into legend in the form of “Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?” – a provocative statement which would perhaps have been just as riling to the knights and barons of his household at whom it was aimed as his actual words. Bitter at Becket , his old friend, constantly thwarting his clerical constitutions, the King shouted in anger but most likely not with intent. However, four of Henry’s knights, Reginald Fitzurse , Hugh de Morville, Lord of Westmorland , William de Tracy , and Richard le Breton overheard their King’s cries and decided to act on his words.

On 29 December 1170, they entered Canterbury Cathedral, finding Becket near the stairs to the crypt. They beat down the Archbishop, killing him with several blows. Becket’s brains were scattered upon the ground with the words; “Let us go, this fellow will not be getting up again.” Whatever the rights and wrongs, it certainly tainted Henry’s later reign. For the remaining 20 years of his rule, he would personally regret the death of a man who “in happier times…had been a friend”. Although there is no such thing as an historical exact match, one can hear a certain contemporary echo in these words (emphasis mine): When his show airs tomorrow, Bill O’Reilly will most certainly decry the death of Kansas doctor George Tiller, who was killed Sunday while attending church services with his wife. Tiller, O’Reilly will say, was a man who was guilty of barbaric acts, but a civilized society does not resort to lawless murder, even against its worst members. And O’Reilly, we can assume, will genuinely mean this.

But there’s no other person who bears as much responsibility for the characterization of Tiller as a savage on the loose, killing babies willy-nilly thanks to the collusion of would-be sophisticated cultural elites, a bought-and-paid-for governor and scofflaw secular journalists. Tiller’s name first appeared on “The Factor” on Feb. 25, 2005. Since then, O’Reilly and his guest hosts have brought up the doctor on 28 more episodes, including as recently as April 27 of this year. Almost invariably, Tiller is described as “Tiller the Baby Killer.” Tiller, O’Reilly likes to say, “destroys fetuses for just about any reason right up until the birth date for $5,000.” He’s guilty of “Nazi stuff,” said O’Reilly on June 8, 2005; a moral equivalent to NAMBLA and al-Qaida, he suggested on March 15, 2006. “This is the kind of stuff [that] happened in Mao’s China, Hitler’s Germany, Stalin’s Soviet Union,” said O’Reilly on Nov. 9, 2006.

[…] When Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline, an O’Reilly favorite who faced harsh criticism for seeking Tiller’s records, was facing electoral defeat by challenger Paul Morrison, O’Reilly said, “Now we don’t endorse candidates here, but obviously, that would be a colossal mistake. Society must afford some protection for viable babies and children who are raped.” (Morrison ultimately unseated Kline.) This is where O’Reilly’s campaign against George Tiller becomes dangerous. While he never advocated anything violent or illegal, the Fox bully repeatedly portrayed the doctor as a murderer on the loose, allowed to do whatever he wanted by corrupt and decadent authorities. “Also, it looks like Dr. Tiller, who some call Tiller the Baby Killer, is spending a large amount of money in order to get Mr. Morrison elected. That opens up all kinds of questions,” said O’Reilly on Nov. 6, 2006, in one of many suggestions that Tiller was improperly influencing the election.

Tiller’s excuses for performing late-term abortions, O’Reilly suggested, were frou-frou, New Age, false ailments: The woman might have a headache or anxiety, or have been dumped by her boyfriend. She might be “depressed,” scoffed O’Reilly, which he dismissed as “feeling a bit blue and carr[ying] a certified check.” There was, he proposed on Jan. 5, 2007, a kind of elite conspiracy of silence on Tiller. “Yes, OK, but we know about the press. But it becomes a much more intense problem when you have a judge, confronted with evidence of criminal wrongdoing, who throws it out on some technicality because he wants to be liked at the country club. Then it’s intense.” Tiller, said O’Reilly on Jan. 6 of this year, was a major supporter of then-Gov. Kathleen Sebelius. “I think it’s unfairly characterized as just a grip and grin relationship.

He was a pretty big supporter of hers.” She had cashed her campaign check from Tiller, “doesn’t seem to be real upset about this guy operating a death mill, which is exactly what it is in her state, does she?” he asked on July 14 of last year. “Maybe she’ll — maybe she’ll pardon him,” he scoffed two months ago. This is where it gets most troubling. O’Reilly’s language describing Tiller, and accusing the state and its elites of complicity in his actions, could become extremely vivid. On June 12, 2007, he said, “Yes, I think we all know what this is. And if the state of Kansas doesn’t stop this man, then anybody who prevents that from happening has blood on their hands as the governor does right now, Governor Sebelius.” Three days later, he added, “No question Dr. Tiller has blood on his hands. But now so does Governor Sebelius. She is not fit to serve. Nor is any Kansas politician who supports Tiller’s business of destruction. I wouldn’t want to be these people if there is a Judgment Day.

I just — you know … Kansas is a great state, but this is a disgrace upon everyone who lives in Kansas. Is it not?” […] O’Reilly didn’t tell anyone to do anything violent, but he did put Tiller in the public eye, and help make him the focus of a movement with a history of violence against exactly these kinds of targets (including Tiller himself, who had already been shot). In those circumstances, flinging around words like “blood on their hands,” “pardon,” “country club” and “judgment day” was sensationally irresponsible. Unlike Henry II, though, O’Reilly will not spend the rest of his life regretting the part his words played in the murder of a man over a political disagreement. Jun 1, 2009

Question: Which monarch said Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest'?
Answer: Henry II